Weather Service: Sandy to bring heavy rain, winds

5:39 PM,
Oct. 25, 2012

This image from the National Weather Service Web site shows the projected track of Hurricane Sandy. The Weather Service in Albany said the storm may bring heavy rain and strong winds to the mid-Hudson Valley Monday and Tuesday.

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Hurricane Sandy may no longer be a hurricane when it reaches the Northeast, but the storm is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to the area Monday into Tuesday nonetheless, meteorologists said.

"It's expected to transfer into an extra-tropical storm, which is just like a bad nor'easter by the time it gets up to our area," said Kevin Lipton, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albany. "But the effects could still potentially be quite be bad."